Taiwan and Post-Communist Europe examines Taiwans economic diplomacy towards post-communist states in Central and Eastern Europe. The media, and occasionally academia, have often suggested that Taipei resorts to costly aid, trade and investment diplomacy to facilitate its foreign relations, whilst China engages in equally costly counter-economic diplomacy to keep Taiwan isolated. Czeslaw Tubilewicz argues conversely that Beijings diplomacy in post-communist Europe has demonstrated Chinas reluctance to employ economic instruments against states violating...